Robert Wilson

Hartford Stage has cast its musical adaptation of "Anastasia," which plays the theater May 12 through June 12 and is likely to be Broadway-bound. The Hartford production will star Christy Altomare (Broadway's "Mamma Mia") in the title role of a woman suspected of being the last surviving child of Tsar Nicholas II of Russian, and Derek Klena (Broadway's "Bridges of Madison County" and "Wicked") as her love interest Dmitry.

The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna will be played by Mary Beth Peil, who plays the governor's mom on TV's "The Good Wife" and was in another Connecticut pre-Broadway musical try-out, "Triumph of Love" at...

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